Lost Solace begins well and crafts us some great characters with a human and her AI/spaceship. Their interception of the Lost Ship exposes them to a slew of alien interactions and the action takes off from there, though it meandered a bit after the initial exposure. It picked up with the human authorities chasing the thief and their stolen AI. Add some tension to the timeline with the neutron star dragging them all in, and you have a solid sci-fi story.